Improved ash-box and sifteb



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` Q O Letters .Pater-it .N 100,452, dated Mtl/rch; 1,1870.

- jnviPRovnD Asn-Box AND SIFTBR.

'urhe Schedule vxrei'erx'ed to iu these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, Humm D. ROGERS, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ollio, have invented a new and useful Parlor Ash-Box, of which 4the following isa specification.

Nuit-ure and Objects ofthe Imc-intimi.

,y w This invention relates to a device chiefly for use within doors, whereby ashes can be removed and the cinders restored to the tire without soiling floors orA carpets, furniture, Sac.

' General Description with ljrcnceto the Drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of my box, in its open condition, and with the ash-pan containing ashes and cinders placed witlrin it. v

Figure 2 is a transverse section, showing the same closed.

Figure 3 isa similar section thereof, inverted `for sifting. i y i Figure 4 isa longitudinal section, with the ash-door The lid B is hinged, C, toV the body, A, at' about half the height of the latter, and incloses its upper portion so as-to et'ectnally shut inthe dust.

The rear upper part of the body is open, except two wings, D, so as to allow of the passage of the ash-pan IE' in closing the box, as hereafter explained.

A balance, E, proiecting from the hinge side ofthe lid, enters the body when the box is closed,.a-nd prevents the escape ofdustat the hinges.

Support-cd upon `ledges I", at' mid-height of the body, is a sieve(1`r,.havinga back and ends, and .being -open atthe side which is presented toward the hinges.

The body Afhas at its lower portion a door, H,- through which to discharge the ashes.

`This door has wings, h, running in are-guides a, and a lip, h', to preventthe escape of dust.

The sieve is held in place by catches I.

Suitable handles, K, may be provided where con` venient.

Operation. n The box being open, the pan, with its load of ashes and cinders, is placed within the lid, as in tig. l, and-5 the. box is then closed vby turning overv the body into the lid.

The box is then overturned, so as to spill the contentsof the pan onto the sieve, and is-then agi tated sufficiently to precipitate the ashes through the meshes of the sieve into the lowe-x= portion of the body, leaving the cindcrs on the sieve.

The box is then opened, the empty pan is lifted out and placed under the grate, the sieve, with its load ot' cinders, removed and emptied into the h`re,cor saved Vin the coal-scuttle and the sieve replaced. The box is then closed again and carried ont of theroom or house, when convenient, and the ashes discharged through the. door H.

It will be seen that the einders of' all the coal fires in a house can be saved, if desired,-and .t-he ashes removed from the roomswithout any trouble or annoyance, thereby avoiding the carrying of an`open pan full of ashes through rooms or halls, asis now the custom-l Claims.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- 1. The ash-pan A B C I) E, constructed in the manner and for the purpose specilicd.

2. In Vclnnllinat-ion with the ash-pan A B O I) E, the. sieve G, constructed and applied substantially as and for the purpose set' forth.

Iu testimony of which invention I hereunto sot. my hand.

HIRAM 1). ROGERS. Witnesses GEO. H'. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAx. 

